Archaeologists have analyzed ritual spaces and monumental structures across Polynesia, questioning the idea that Rapa Nui ...

Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Quebec has confirmed the existence of Earth's oldest known rocks, dating back 4.16 ...

In remote sensing, single image super-resolution (SISR) can be learned from large cross-sensor datasets with matched high resolution (HR) and low resolution (LR) satellite images, thus avoiding the ...

The need for accurate radiometric data for the verification and use of scene radiation models is emphasized. The radiometric problems associated with reflectance and atmospheric correction field ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing matter, methane fuels sea spiders’ diet, and more.

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

Fossilised whale along with other marine invertebrate fossils. Credit: Shiladri S. Das Scientists have discovered fossilised vertebrae and ribs of a whale on the bank of a dried, seasonal river in ...

Fossils in the Boquillas Formation at Big Bend National Park in Texas reveal new clues about the Cretaceous.

Due to their age, the fossils help fill in a key gap in dinosaur history—a period between about 85 million and 100 million years ago, when conditions didn’t preserve many fossils.

The Real-Life Dating Boot Camp That Inspired ‘Love on the Spectrum’ When U.C.L.A. psychologists first proposed teaching adults with autism how to date, funders wouldn’t go near it.

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It's the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...